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Thank you for this. There was some old src files in my bin that I didn’t have permission to delete (I don’t know how), and with this command all I had to do was add a sudo in front and it worked brilliantly! Cheers!

Yeah i got mine to work using the command: sudo rm -rf ‘/home/username/.local/share/Trash’ on Ubuntu 8.04. Thanks a bunch as I needed this since I put files into the trash that were read-only, so then I didn’t have permission to delete my own files. Damn I hate permissions sumetimes.

means, remove recursively(include subfolders, and subsubfolders etc.) forceably(dont ask me for confirmation) everything in this folder(The * is a wildcard meaning it matches ‘everything’ in the folder)

GEEK TRIVIA

DID YOU KNOW?

Fore-edge painting is a process, dating back to the 10th century, of painting scenes on the fanned edges of a book’s pages or on the closed edge (side) itself. The fanned edge scenes remain hidden until the book is opened and the pages are gently displaced to align the tiny segments of the painting hidden on the very edge of each page. The closed edge style is easily viewed so long as the book remains closed.